Description:
French delft, scalloped-rim dish decorated in blue and purple. In 1672, a royal proclamation banned the importation into England and her colonies of "any kind or sort of Painted Earthen Wares whatsoever (except those of China, and Stone bottle and Juggs)." Further restrictions four years later instructed customs officials to seize and destroy all imported painted earthenwares "as well as white or Blew or any other colours." European tin-glazed earthenwares were effectively prevented from reaching the American colonies. With the lifting of this embargo in 1775, America became a new market for Continental goods, and French tin-glazed earthenware was briefly popular in the colonies until the English ceramics industry reasserted itself with the Staffordshire potteries' white, refined creamwares. Newspaper advertisements in the late 1770's and early 1780's list "Rhoan" and "Deph and Roan wares", probably referring to delftwares produced in Rouen, France. Many fragments have been found in excavated ports where merchants traded with the West Indies, such as Williamsburg, Virginia, Middletown, Connecticut, Boston, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Similar to this example, they have a heavy, reddish-colored body covered with a bluish-white glaze, decorated in blue and purple with simple baskets of flowers and crossed-hatched and dotted borders. This dish, discovered in Massachusetts, has the following ink inscription on the back: "This plate belonged to Sophia Emmitt, Grandmother of Mary L. Prahler".
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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